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SD tv in garage connected to hr20 via composite cables. Press and hold exit button to watch tv. No problem until today trying to watch HBO. Get message that the program is content protected. I can view every other channel except HBO. This wasn't the case last week. Something new?

SD tv in garage connected to hr20 via composite cables. Press and hold exit button to watch tv. No problem until today trying to watch HBO. Get message that the program is content protected. I can view every other channel except HBO. This wasn't the case last week. Something new?

Noticed something strange this week also regarding HBO. Although my Sony is connected via HDMI I get the message that my "set is not compatible with....."displayed too briefly to read in its entirety. It is displayed when changing between HBO channels. Same TV, same HR20 for nearly six years, never a problem prior to this.

Turn on the TV that the HDMI cable is connected to, or if the cable is just hanging on the back of the IRD, remove it and things should work. The ird can't confirm that the device that the HDMI cable is plugged into is a HDCP compliant TV and that's what the error is about.

Looking at some tech tips on a DirecTv site it appears that they have introduced HDCP content protection on the premium movie channels this month. It should only affect older model HDTV's that aren't HDCP compliant connected via HDMI. The work around is to use component cables and to remove the HDMI cable.

HBO is changing, adding copywrite protection to its channels. It's supposed to be something that only effects HDMI connections to tvs that are too old to have proper HDCP protection, but this could conceivably affect other types of connections. HBO and Cinemax just started doing this and Starz and Showtime are slated to follow later this month. Other channels may follow, at the digression of their owners.

Looking at some tech tips on a DirecTv site it appears that they have introduced HDCP content protection on the premium movie channels this month. It should only affect older model HDTV's that aren't HDCP compliant connected via HDMI. The work around is to use component cables and to remove the HDMI cable.

Why would this be affecting your composite connected TV. Who Knows!

With HDMI and composite connected the receiver is expecting an HDMI handshake that his HDCP compliant. If the TV hooked up via HDMI is not turned on that handshake won't happen.

After reading this thread, I thought I'd check the TVs on my system. I have one TV that is being fed its signal from the DIRECTV box via a MyWirelessTV wireless transmitter. When I tune that TV to HBO, I get the non-HDCP compliant message. I know that the TV is, in fact, HDCP compliant, and, if I connect the TV directly to a DIRECTV receiver, HBO shows fine. Thus, it would seem that something related to the wireless transmitter is the cause of the signal being blocked.

If anybody can suggest a workaround that will allow me to continue to use the wireless transmitter, I'd appreciate it. The wireless transmitter has only HDMI ports on both the receiver and the transmitter. My first thought is to try to replace the HDMI cable going from the DIRECTV box to the wireless transmitter with a component to HDMI cable coming from the component outputs of the DIRECTV box to the HDMI port on the transmitter, but, before I spend the money on the cable, it would be nice to know if it has a chance of working.

Call your transmitter manufacturer and complain - perhaps they would make new FW for it with non-revoked key.

Subsequent to my posting above, I experimented a bit and discovered that the HBO signal will come through fine on the remote TV that the wireless transmitter is transmitting to IF I also have the TV that has a wired connection to the same DIRECTV DVR turned on. Thus, I'm guessing that the issue is that, unless a successful handshake is negotiated between the DIRECTV box and the hard wired TV, the signal is being blocked to the remote TV getting its signal wirelessly. So, what I need to figure out is how to get the signal to work on the remote TV without having to have the TV that has the wired connection turned on.

You don't know for sure (is your working config means two HDMI output from one DTV DVR ?) what is culprit if dual output working OK.

The HDMI output from the DIRECTV DVR feeds into the HDMI input for the MyWirelessTV transmitter. Then, the transmitter has an HDMI output that feeds the TV in the same room, and the signal is wirelessly transmitted to the remote TV. Until the change with HBO and HDCP, it had worked great with both the local and remote TVs, and it still works fine with channels other than the HBO channels. After doing a Google search, I've found others who are having the same issue since the HBO/HDCP change, but I have not found anyone who has a solution. It appears that there is a successful handshake between the local TV and the DVR if the local TV is turned on, and, if that happens, the signal will go to both the local and remote TVS, but, if the local TV is turned off, the handshake is not completed, and signal will not go to the remote TV.

I got it - one side of the wireless has HDMI output, like a replicator.

Anyway, it's matter of manufacturer's responsibility. I would contact them.

I did submit a support request earlier today to the manufacturer of the transmitter. I was not, however, encouraged when one of the Google search items that I found was a thread on the DIRECTV support forums. Others reported the same issue, and those who had contacted the transmitter manufacturer were not able to get a solution from them.